Accidental Invisible Geometry

[jmd97]

Im hoping someone can help me with this....

I was working on a file when I tried to import a shader into the hypershade. The next thing that I knew my geometry dissapeared. I exited out of Maya (3.0) , didnt save, and came back to my file. My geometry was still gone.

Here's the kicker.

Its still in the hypergraph. I can scale,transform,rotate it, but I cannot see it anymore. Not even in wireframe, shaded or lighted views.

Heres what ive tried:
[*]Did a display->show->all
[*]Did a display->all in the panel
[*]RightClick on the thing in the hypergraph did a "show"
[*]Made sure visibility was set to "ON"
[*]Made sure it wasnt scaled real small, or translated way out there.
[*]Tried importing it into a blank scene.
[*]Tried assigning a plain lambert to it.

Sent it to a friend who has Maya 4, he opened it and it was fine. But I have Maya 3 and they wont buy me Maya 4 here anytime soon.

Im just plain out of ideas. Any suggestions will be really appreciated.

--jen

[gmask]

If it's a polygonal model it may have lost it's UV map.. try making a new one for it or at least check to see if it has one assigned.

g

[jmd97]

thanks,
but im still really really new to maya.....how.....

[gmask]

Is it polygonal?

g

[jmd97]

yup

[gmask]

Ok.. if you make a new scene.. and make new geometry do you still have this problem with invisible geometry or is it jus tthis one object in this one scene?

g

[jmd97]

All other scenes are fine. Whats really odd it that there are some other geometries in this scene (satellite dishes and stuff) that I drew and they are perfectly soild and obey as they should (also polys). I dont know why my aircraft carrier was singled out.

[gmask]

Hmm.. I tried to recreate this problem but I still at least could see the wireframe of the object in the shaded mode.

In the meantime I suppose you could have your friend with M4 export the model as a Maya ascii file and then hack the header to require Maya 3 so that you can import it into your scene and get back to work. Maybe somebody else will knwo the fix on this.. it sounds familiar but I can't figure it out.

g

[rebar]

reassign your shader to the object. If that doesnt fix it you probably have a corrupt object (happens sometimes when you dont delete history often and your history gets messy.)
I havent found a way to fix corrupt objects.
G